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TELE-GRAPHIC,
Seces-ion «i"l'r[iitc-s«cc.
Montgomery, A la., May 8.
Tennessee has declared herself out
of the l'Y.lornl Uuion by tlio State
Legislature. The people will vnlV
on the ordinance of secession on the
Sth of June next.
A military league has been form
ed with the Confederate States, and
coiiliiimd by the Legislature—the
expenses of the war to ho borne by
the Confederacy army, acting under j
-■he Confederate States authority.
Foreign Sew*.
[The following news reaches us via
Montgomery:]
French journals published the
Pope’s protest against crowning Vic
tor Emmanuel King of Italy.
The Paris Bourse was weak.—
llentes were quoted at GSf 38c.
“jlixie.”
New A’ork, May 8.
John A. Dix, Esq., has accepted
the Major-Generalship of the New
York forces.
Only three Venr Troops Wanted
Washington, May 8.
The War Department here has
telegraphed to Gov. Andrew, of
Massachusetts, that no additional
troops arc wanted here unless they
will enlist for 3 years.
About Senator liayaril.
Pmr.ADKi.rniA, May 8.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, ar
rived here this .morning, but has
again left for Wilmington, Del., for
fearofa personal assaulter) account of
his Southern proclivities.
Earier Preparing for War.
A LEX ax DittA, A’a., May S.
li is reported here that a battery
has becu erected opposite Gen. Bai
ler's station on tho Patapseo River,
which can eifectuidlv rake his com
Tho Government has duclim
accept more than one regime:
three months volunteers from A
Movement* of Vessels.'
New York, Slay 8.
Tho schooner John, front Charles
ton, has arrived at Annnpp.dis.
Baltimore, May 8.
Suspicious crafts are fitting out
here. They will be overhaul' d on
the Buy.
rate Stales.
General Ilarnev has been ordered
to St. Louis.
The passenger trains between
Baltimore and Philadelphia have re
sumed their trips.
Largo numbers of transpci!
coming
Ponnsylvr.nia I.crrlMnlure.
Harrisburg, Pa., May 8.
Somonction was taken in the Leg
islature hero in reference to Senator
Mason’s property, in this State.
A motion was made to extend the
suspension of specie payments by the
Pennsylvania Banks until January,
18G2.
A Lieutenant Arrested.
Baltimore, May 8.
Lieut. Fauntelroy of the Navy,
Ili^iciilonr.
We hope our readers will excuse
us for publishing thefolloVlng short
•Attract from a lengthy article in the
arc ; London Chronic!.', but it is so rich,
j run* and racy, wc cannot forbear:
‘ Ever rime Mr. Lincoln's uscent
to the Presidential chair, the cruci-
i ties of the slave owners have been
multiplied arid intensified, because it
is feared that, .unless a system of
terror he established, the hereditary
bondsmen will make weapons of
their chuins and crush oppression
itself under the heel of revolted sla
very. Not in Algiers, when tho
Deys were at tho summit of their
execrable power; not in Rome, when
tho poor captive girl, after being
was arrested liereen route for Wash- I fln S itioUs] - v ,,b,,si ' d - wn3 flun S iQt ° 11
irn'ton ! l 10m 'i llot 111 Russia, when tho
executioner cuts out tho tonguo of
his knouted victim, have horrors
more terrible been recorded thun
Stopping the Supplies.
LoLMsvftx.E, May 8.
The Surveyor of Customs at this j have been testified to by unwilling
port has been ordered by his Gov- j wilncssess since the triumph of Mr.
eminent to prevent all shipments of
arms, munitions and provisions to
the seceded States, passing by or go
ing through to Louisville.
Soutfict’ti Congress.
. Moxtgojiery, May 8..
In Congress to-day President
Cobb read a telegraphic dispatch
from D. P. Hill, Commissioner to
Arkansas, announcing that the
Convention of that State, on the 6th |
inst., passed unanimously an uncon
ditional ordinance of secession.
Mr. Morton, of Florida., offered ki
resolution of enquiry into tho pflD
priety of appointing Chaplains in
me.nd. Butler, it is said, is prepar- j *^ ie °rmy. Adopted,
ing to lake it. ! Mr'. Ocliiltrcc, of Texas, iutroduc-
jed a hill providing compensation for
Wiia: Gen. CocJsc Hays.
New York, May S.
Brigadier General Cocke says,
that Gen. Ruggles is quartered at
Fredericksburg, V.:.,—Cocke to take
position in front of Washington, in
connection with the commanding of
ficer at Harprr’s Ferry, and thus
cover and defend the Potomac bor
der Against Northern invasion.
Gen. Cocku denies that the Capi
tol has ever been threatened by the
Confederate State authorities; but
Gen. Scott has ordered a rapid
augmentation or forces at Washing
ton.
Frederick, Md., May 10.
Two companies of Baltimore vnl
Lincoln. The overworked, under
fed, miserably clad, and wretchedly
lodged slaves, have been compelled,
i as a means of repressing their intcl-
| ligence, to work in iron collurs, to
! sleep in the stocks, to drag heavy
chains at their feet, .to- wear yokes,
bells and copper horns; to stand na
ked while their masters or mistress
es brand them infamously, to have
their teeth drawn, to have red pep
per rubbed into their excoriated
flesh, to he bathed in turpentine, to
be thrust into sacks with mad cats,
to have their fingers amputated,, to
be shaved, and lobe whipped from
neck to heels with red hot iroi.s. It is
of no avail to deny this impeachment.
Congress itself, which contains a
majority of slave-owners, admits the
truth. Tho American journals teem
with advertisements of slaves whoso
bodies are marked indelibly with tho
traces of torture. Cases aro fre
quently tried in the law courts of
the Union masters who have not
only flogged their black girls to death
but have deliberately carved their
flesh from their bones; and since tho
beginning of the panic caused by Mr,
Lincoln’s election, these abomina
tions have, been redoubled."
Tho above, says tho New York
Day Book, must have been written
by some one just recovering from
delirium tremens. We m e inclined
to think our lamented “three legged
Willie” would call it “a lordly, tall,
huge, overgrown lie.”
the disbursing officers of the several j
Executive Departments.
Mr.. Conrad, of Louisiana., intro
duced a motion to appoint a Conv-
uiiftee on Claims. Adopted.
Congress then went into secret
session.
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Postal Arrnagerncul.
Montgomery, May 8.
The Postal 'Department of the
Confederate States are ready to take
cjjafgcof the mails at any moment
Congress may direct. Office seal,
books, blanks, routes, and clerical
force, arc all complete. No deten
tion ot the mails need be nppreiicnd-
jed in consequence of any policy Em
in's government mny pursue,
Washington, May 10.
1.11c \\ ar Department. has receiv- wiry an AYill :roi Vol-
jed information that 50,000 men ar.-
within two days inarch of Riolunonc 1
. r: ill eel 1 .
Njmv York, April 27,1861.
Editor of N. Y. News:
1 am an Irishman. I linvo been
asked why, I did not volunteer and
march to put down the rebellion in
inteers passed here cu route to join ,, |U Bouth . Mav I „ ive three ofrny
f he A lrginia Army. j ,, ; , , J
CiiAMiiERSDCiicr, Pa., Mny 10. !™ so,ls . tl,ron 8 h your columns?—
It is retiorted that the Virginians j 1 t y - v r luo ,
arc fortifying the heights on the: L 1 was n volunteer ,n our army
Maryland side of. the Potomac.— j 111 Mexico, and while I was there,
iTIiere are already about 6,000 Co::-! the mat who now control and urgu
jfederat*' t:-wq>R -f 11s Jluil war, were at home, and
From Harper's Ferry. j opposing the war against a foreign
Philadelphia, May 0. [foe. Seward, Greyly, Corwin, Lin.
Tho Virginia troops are reported 1 coin arid Beecher, &c., denounced
to he concentrating in force at liar- j the war and tho men who were car-
IVoboily Seared.
Washington, May 9.
The Government feels no appre
hension of an attack on Cairo.
j rying it on.
II. A few years ago, tho Know-
Nothing parly seemed to ho sweep
ing tho whole country before them,
jam! State after State, Massachu
setts and New A’oik even joined
— their ranks,
What Gen. Leo Says. The Irishman and the German,
AVakihngtox, Mny 9. the Catholic, was threatened with
General Leo, of the Virginia.a withdrawal of tho rights anil
|lroops, says that the Virginians j equality which the Constitution and
hull not cross tho Slate line, unless j the laws secured to them,
hey arc attackc-il. Where, then, wasJhe first hold,
— manly nud successful uprising in tho
From ."lonigoinery, ; Stales, for the foreign lmrn citizen,
Montgomery, May 9. mid (lie right:- of conscience for thu
'Nothing done in public by Con- Catholic?
;ress to-day. An act was passed in.
crcl session to raise an additional
|lbreo to nerve during the war. and to
tuthome the President to accept tli
It was in Old Viiginia!
III. If I deny the right of the
Southern people to state their griuv-
( iiceii, and to judge when they may
service of volunteers without regard ret up a Government for themselves
'to their place of the enlistment, how can I hereafter pustnin Ireland
Another act uvr: urn :!o public wlvch and Hungary wh n they shal] d n •
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